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Saturday, 22 March 2014

Manage Windows 7 tips

By now, you’ve probably seen that Windows 7 does a lot to make window
management easier: you can “dock” a window to the left or right half of
the screen by simply dragging it to the edge; similarly, you can drag
the window to the top of the screen to maximize it, and double-click the
window top / bottom border to maximize it vertically with the same
horizontal width. What you might not know is that all these actions are
also available with keyboard shortcuts:

This
side-by-side docking feature is particularly invaluable on widescreen
monitors – it makes the old Windows way of shift-clicking on two items
in the taskbar and then using the context menu to arrange them feel
really painful.